hands: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of hands
- farmhands«Word Popularity Bar2/5
farmhand
- noun a hired hand on a farm
farm worker; field hand; fieldhand.
- noun a hired hand on a farm
- cowhands2/5
cowhand
- noun a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
puncher; cowherd; cowboy; cowpuncher; cowpoke; cattleman; cowman.
- noun a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
- stagehands2/5
stagehand
- noun an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
stage technician.
- noun an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
- shorthands1/5
shorthand
- noun a method of writing rapidly
stenography; tachygraphy.
- adjective satellite written in abbreviated or symbolic form
- shorthand notes
- noun a method of writing rapidly
- dockhands1/5
dockhand
- noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
dock worker; dock-walloper; lumper; loader; stevedore; dockworker; docker; longshoreman.
- noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
- deckhands1/5
deckhand
- noun a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
roustabout.
- noun a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
- backhands1/5
backhand
- noun a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
backhand shot; backhand stroke.
- verb hit a tennis ball backhand
- noun a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
- forehands1/5
forehand
- noun (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
forehand shot; forehand stroke.
- adjective (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke
forehanded.
- noun (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
- shands1/5
shands
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Suffixes of hands
- handsome«Word Popularity Bar5/5
handsome
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
fine-looking; well-favoured; better-looking; well-favored; good-looking.
- a fine-looking woman
- a good-looking man
- better-looking than her sister
- very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray
- our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
- adjective satellite given or giving freely
liberal; giving; big; openhanded; bountiful; freehanded; bighearted; bounteous.
- was a big tipper
- the bounteous goodness of God
- bountiful compliments
- a freehanded host
- a handsome allowance
- Saturday's child is loving and giving
- a liberal backer of the arts
- a munificent gift
- her fond and openhanded grandfather
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
- handshake3/5
handshake
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
handclasp; handshaking; shake.
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- handsomely3/5
handsomely
- adverb in an attractively handsome manner
- the volume was handsomely bound
- adverb in a generously handsome manner
- India has responded handsomely by providing 3,000 men
- adverb in an attractively handsome manner
- handset3/5
handset
- noun telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
French telephone.
- noun telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
- handshakes2/5
handshake
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
handclasp; handshaking; shake.
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- handshaking2/5
handshaking
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
handshake; handclasp; shake.
- noun grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- handsaw2/5
handsaw
- noun a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
hand saw; carpenter's saw.
- noun a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
- handsomest2/5
handsome
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
fine-looking; well-favoured; better-looking; well-favored; good-looking.
- a fine-looking woman
- a good-looking man
- better-looking than her sister
- very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray
- our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
- adjective satellite given or giving freely
liberal; giving; big; openhanded; bountiful; freehanded; bighearted; bounteous.
- was a big tipper
- the bounteous goodness of God
- bountiful compliments
- a freehanded host
- a handsome allowance
- Saturday's child is loving and giving
- a liberal backer of the arts
- a munificent gift
- her fond and openhanded grandfather
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
- handsomer2/5
handsome
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
fine-looking; well-favoured; better-looking; well-favored; good-looking.
- a fine-looking woman
- a good-looking man
- better-looking than her sister
- very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray
- our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
- adjective satellite given or giving freely
liberal; giving; big; openhanded; bountiful; freehanded; bighearted; bounteous.
- was a big tipper
- the bounteous goodness of God
- bountiful compliments
- a freehanded host
- a handsome allowance
- Saturday's child is loving and giving
- a liberal backer of the arts
- a munificent gift
- her fond and openhanded grandfather
- adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
- handsets2/5
handset
- noun telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
French telephone.
- noun telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
- handspring2/5
handspring
- noun an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
- noun an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
- handsomeness1/5
handsomeness
- noun the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
good looks.
- noun the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
- handsaws1/5
handsaw
- noun a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
hand saw; carpenter's saw.
- noun a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
- handstand1/5
handstand
- noun the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position
- noun the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position
- handstands1/5
handstand
- noun the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position
- noun the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position
- handstamp1/5
handstamp
- noun a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand
rubber stamp.
- verb stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document
rubberstamp.
- noun a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand
- handspike1/5
handspike
- noun a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
- noun a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
- handspikes1/5
handspike
- noun a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
- noun a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
- handsprings1/5
handspring
- noun an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
- noun an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
- handsewn1/5
handsewn
- adjective satellite sewn by hand rather than machine
handstitched.
- adjective satellite sewn by hand rather than machine
- handstitched1/5
handstitched
- adjective satellite sewn by hand rather than machine
handsewn.
- adjective satellite sewn by hand rather than machine
- handsel1/5
handsel
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.
- handspan1/5
- handsful1/5
handsful
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Derived words of hands
- unhandsome«Word Popularity Bar1/5
unhandsome
Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak.
I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `hands`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `hands`, some are not.
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